but more seriously. there’s a lot more than just an absence of basic survival skills here. the reason there’s an absence of basic survival skills is because there’s an absence of communication, and a lack of an informaiton directory. and with that, there is a lack of community, and a lack of leadership. and with that, there’s a complete absence of advanced survival skills
essentially, even if people wanted to learn survival skills, they have nowhere to turn to without either a) a hell of a lot of effort with the internet and a printer. or b) an expert next door, or c) the boy scouts. but even if the boy scouts can survive, i doubt they can build a stable community from scratch. they’ll still be waiting for someone to take charge, just like everyone else.

Yes the federal government is corrupt (not to mention every other organization in these United States with any kind of power over anything/anyone), but they haven’t done anything so far that would make me take up my arms and ammunition and storm the Capitol. Bush is a jackass, but I ask you…who the hell would be any better and still have an actual chance at getting in?

In closing, 3 points to take away with you today…

1) Don’t arm yourself and storm the Capitol building
2) The Second Amendment will never be abolished, even if you try #1
3) DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES try to suck venom from a snakebite!!

;-)

Deer can definitely kill people if they get scared, impale a person with their pointy hoofs or antlers.

Then she mentions the dog she thought was a wolf, & it had a collar… is she sure it wasn’t a wolf? They do collar the wolves to track them. (Though I would assume V is smart enough though to see the difference between a radio collar & a regular dog collar).

Sounds like V also needs to pick up copies of

Country Wistom & Know-How
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1579123686/ref=wl_it_dp/002-3722511-3240857?ie=UTF8&coliid=I36M9FM5O3MQEZ&colid=1W13JYVVCKEFW

And The Big Book of Self-Reliant Living
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592280439/ref=wl_it_dp/002-3722511-3240857?ie=UTF8&coliid=I3G3993JA1GMF7&colid=1W13JYVVCKEFW

Great story and I have one comment.

Every once in a while you hear a story here in CA about some lameass that was running loudly and without a care in the world through the mountains and has an unfortunate and sometimes fatal rendezvous with a mountain lion, who usually is female and protecting her young. After every incidence it is the mountain lion who pays the price with death, whether the encounter was fatal to the human or not. This makes me so sick when it is obviously we the humans who are encroaching on the lions’ habitat. We kill the lions so we have a place we can run safely? How about running in the cement infrastructure you insisted you must have, and cleared away all of the mountains to make it so? Kudos to you for recognizing that we absolutely have zero survival skills and it certainly will be part of our downfall, whether caused by something natural (hurricane, earthquake, rogue asteroid, etc.) or terrorists.